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Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth Is Being Remade By Fans, And It Looks Fantastic

Back in 2018, we first got word that a group of Lord of the Rings fans were remaking the cult classic Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4. If you were expecting that to be the last you heard of the project, sorry, two years later there’s now a very comprehensive gameplay update, and…

The Worst Warzone Gun Is Now The Best (But It’s Still Broken)

One of Warzone’s worst guns is now so broken that, thanks to exploits, it’s actually the best gun to use in Call of Duty’s battle royale. The standard version of the FR 5.56 assault rifle is a weak choice for Warzone matches, but players have discovered that the gun is almost unstoppable with the right…

Considerate Fall Guys Player Saves AFK Contestant From Elimination

It’s an inescapable fact that the world is full of assholes, and the same can be said of Fall Guys. But sometimes someone—or in this case, somebean—does something so wonderful that it makes you forget about humanity’s failings for a little while. Just check out this player safely guiding an AFK competitor around Perfect Match…

E3 Apologizes After Sexist Tweet Gets Ratioed

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was one of those times when the three gremlins in a trenchcoat controlling the E3 Twitter account tweeted something so insulting and ridiculous that all you can do is screenshot it and wait for it to be deleted. At 11:37 a.m. ET…

Baldur’s Gate III Delivers The First Actually Good Not-E3 Developer Livestream

Now this is how you do a Summer of Not-E3 video game livestream. I haven’t seen friends or family in any sort of natural or sustained way for months, the unemployment rate is only slightly below where it was during the worst months of the Great Recession, and hundreds are still dying every day of…

Oculus VR Devices Will Soon Require Facebook Accounts

Starting in October, new users of the Oculus virtual reality gaming platform will need to log in with a Facebook account, the company announced today. Current users will need to merge their Oculus accounts with a Facebook account within the next two years to maintain the “full functionality” of their systems after January 1, 2023.…

This Lion King Speedrunner Is A Queen

Damn! Damn! I don’t think you understand how difficult this is to execute. Mere mortals who play this game have about a 50/50 chance of grabbing onto any swinging rock, with failure almost always resulting in insta-death. And she just… does it. On the hardest difficulty with zero lives. Eight is a straight-up badass.

EA Play, the publisher’s recently rebranded subscription service, will finally be available on Steam starting August 31. Previously the only way to use it on PC was through EA’s own Origin client.

Superliminal Is My Favorite Game Of SGDQ So Far

God I love Games Done Quick. The biannual speedrunning charity event is like a video game holy week for me. I watch everything. It’s on when I work, when I’m eating (if I eat at all), it’s on when I sleep. I am always watching, which actually sounds kinda sinister. The 3D puzzle platformer block…

Killer7 Isn’t Coming To Switch After All [UPDATE]

Update (8/18/20, 1:23 p.m. ET): Sadly, my hopes for a Switch port of killer7 have been dashed. Speaking to Kotaku, Engine Software vice president of development Ruud van de Moosdijk said that his company had discussed porting killer7 to Switch with Grasshopper Manufacture while development on the PC version was ongoing, but Grasshopper eventually decided…

Everything Announced During Today’s Nintendo Indie World

Did you catch Nintendo’s Indie World presentation today on YouTube? Nintendo showed off more than 20 indie hits on their way to the Switch, including a handful that are out later today. Don’t worry if you missed it, we kept track. First off we’ve got the big news. Supergiant’s Hades, that silly Epic Game Store…

Untitled Goose Game Is Getting Multiplayer

Untitled Goose Game, the game about a goose on the loose, is about to become a game about geese on the… leese? Today during Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, developer House House announced that co-op is coming to Untitled Goose Game on September 23 as part of a free update. In just one week, you and…

Chill exploration game A Short Hike has finally arrives on Switch sometime today and the timing couldn’t be better. Find treasure, rid a motorboat, catch up with other critters and shutout the rest of world while taking strolls off the beaten path.

Supergiant’s Hades Is Coming To Switch

To kick off today’s Nintendo Indie World showcase, Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre developer Supergiant announced that its most recent game, Hades, is coming to Switch this fall. Hades is a narrative-driven roguelike rooted in Greek mythology. The Switch version will have cross save functionality with the PC version, so if you—like me—have already sunk countless…

How’s It Going? Flight Stick Edition

Dammit, Microsoft Flight Simulator. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Good morning. I’ve spent the opening hours of my day on the website of one Thrustmaster because Microsoft Flight Simulator demands it. I own more than three dozen mechanical keyboards, but none of them are adequate to control a Cessna. They work okay, and…

Next-Gen Arkane Game Deathloop Delayed To 2021

Deathloop, Arkane’s upcoming time-based immersive sim, has been delayed to spring of 2021, the studio tweeted today. And just like that another next-gen game falls out of this year’s lineup. The studio cites work-from-home and “the health and safety” of staff as reasons for the delay, writing, “This extra time will allow our team to…

Fall Guys Creators Incite Twitter Brand Bidding War For Charity, And It’s Beautiful To Watch

Since the launch of wildly successful battle royale Fall Guys, Twitter brands have been falling over themselves to get their products and/or services represented as in-game costumes. Yesterday developer Mediatonic launched a two-week “Battle of the Brands” event, with the brand that donates the most to gamer charity Special Effect securing the coveted tie-in. As…

Report: Batman Developer Rocksteady Accused Of Failing To Address Sexual Harassment [Update]

Female staffmembers at Rocksteady Studios, best known for the Batman: Arkham series, sent a letter to management back in 2018 complaining about sexual harassment, according to a new report by the Guardian The letter, reportedly signed by 10 of the 16 women on staff at the time, cited a number of persistant issues including transphobic…

This Cassette Tape Made Double Dragon Sound Awesome

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Double Dragon’s super-famous 1987 soundtrack interests me for two reasons: It kind of sucked on its original arcade hardware, and a much better version came out on a cassette tape! Okay, “sucked” is a bit…

Now That’s A Treehouse

Rebecca On is an artist at Wizards of the Coast, where she works on Magic The Gathering You can see more of Rebecca’s stuff at her personal site and ArtStation page